YORKTOWN, VA, December 17, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Frederic Allison Henney, EdD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Henney celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
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Serving 20 years in the United States Air Force, Dr. Henney advanced from second lieutenant and pilot in 1951 to lieutenant colonel and command pilot by 1967. During those years, he was also assigned non-flying duties as an education and training staff officer. Upon completion of preparatory operational unit training in 1953, he was assigned to duty in 1954 as a reconnaissance pilot and squadron adjutant in the 45th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron on Kimpo Air Base in the Republic of South Korea.
Upon return to the U.S. in 1955, and assigned to the 2589th Air Training Squadron at Dobbins Air Force Base, Marietta, Georgia, he functioned as ground training officer, honor flight commander, instrument flying instructor, base communications officer, with 12 other additional duty requirements. In 1956, he was assigned to complete a master's degree in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with further assignment in 1958 as an assistant professor of English and philosophy in the English department at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Four years later, he received an assignment to be assistant plans officer and director of the language laboratory, where English, French, and Italian were taught to NATO staff, at HQ Allied Forces Southeastern Europe, in Bagnoli, Italy. Between 1962 and 1965, he assisted in developing the new underground headquarters for the Italian army and in arranging a new lease with Italy for the headquarters situated in Bagnoli, just outside of Naples. Additionally, he taught English, at the NATO post, to U. S. military personnel for college credit with the University of Maryland.
In 1965, he was assigned to Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, South Carolina, where he was responsible for chemical, biological, and radiation defense training, supervision of the F-4 aircraft simulator training facility and the base firing range, planning and directing parades, and piloting the four-engine courier aircraft between Tactical Air Command bases from Virginia to Florida. In 1966, he volunteered to join the 316th Tactical Airlift Squadron being created at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia. On arriving at Langley, he was sent to Sewart Air Force Base, Nashville, Tennessee, for training as an aircraft commander in C-130 four-engine cargo aircraft. From 1966 to 1970, Dr. Henney was given three and four month temporary duty assignments to bases in Mildenhall, England, Rhein Main, Germany, and Tachikawa, Japan, where his flying missions took him not only to other airfields in those countries but also to Norway's arctic circle, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Libya, The Philippines, Vietnam, and South Korea. He evacuated American military families from Libya during the U.S. withdrawal, and flew a C-130 full of spare parts and repair equipment to Tehran in support of the evacuation of embassy personnel from Amman, Jordan, during the Arab-Israeli war in 1967. In 1970 and 1971, he was editor of the secret 14-volume TAC 85 study produced for the Tactical Air Command headquarters at Langley Air Force Base.
Retiring from the Air Force in August 1971, Dr Henney pursued a career as an educator and administrator for 27 years before retiring a second time in 2000. In 1973, as director of student services at Rappahannock Community College in Glenns, Virginia, he increased enrollment, taught orientation classes, substituted for absent instructors, assisted with financial aid services, counseled students, oversaw student extracurricular activities, and chaperoned student weekend dances. Appointed in 1974 as coordinator of evening programs at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Virginia, he oversaw all evening college activities and classes on campus and college classes at a nearby high school, worked with division chairmen of the various curricula to hire adjunct professors, prepared adjunct faculty pay letters for the college president, and coordinated with local American Institute of Banking representatives in offering classes for local bank personnel taught by bank officers. The national American Institute of Banking asked him and his wife, Carolee, a local schoolteacher to give a three-day training course on banking education at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.
In 1981, the president of the college asked him to become assistant to the president with responsibility for increasing enrollment. Dr. Henney visited all high schools in the area, assuring that each had displays of materials about curricular offerings at TNCC and conferred with school counselors to assure that they were cognizant of the college benefits for high school graduates. He also attended every major public event in the area including those at Langley Air Force, standing in front of his tables, shaking hands with all who passed by and offering college catalogs and talking about the programs. Enrollment increased significantly over the next three years.
In 1985, a teaching position opened in the English department and Dr. Henney became an associate professor. During the next 15 years, Dr. Henney gave presentations, involving his overflow audiences, about student centered learning strategies rather than teacher centered learning in English classes. These presentations were made in a number of cities from the east coast to the west coast at professional conferences of The Two-Year College English Association-Southeast and the International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Henney founded Aton Press in 1989 in Yorktown, Virginia, and published college textbooks and books for children. He continues to edit and prepare for publication all his wife's novels, children's books, and other literature. He was a Toastmaster and became president of Cathedral Rock [Colorado] Toastmaster's Club number 2511 in 1964. He served as a judge of speech and forensics contests in Colorado and Virginia, and has been active on the Republican committee for York County in Virginia.
He is very proud of his military career. For his service in NATO he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and for his Vietnam war service he was awarded the United States Air Force Air Medal for 50 combat missions, involving more than 200 takeoffs and landings throughout Vietnam.
For high school he attended Staunton Military Academy, and was accepted at the United States Military Academy where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in military engineering in 1951. He earned a master of arts in English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1958, and a Doctorate in higher education administration from The College of William and Mary. He earned a commercial pilot's license for single and multi engine aircraft from the Federal Aviation Administration, and a USAF instrument pilot instructor rating while in the Air Force.
Married to Carolee Wells Henney, author, jewelry designer, and artist, since 1951, the couple has three children, nine grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. He designed his house, swimming pool enclosure, and a large studio where he and his wife enjoy making jewelry and pottery, and painting. They have enjoyed traveling to Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, multiple ports around the Caribbean, much of Europe, and all of the 50 states.
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